Clothesline support



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I CLTHESLINE SUPPORT Filed Deo. 18, 1955 INV-ENTOR JZ. Pern/y ATTORNEYS WITNEssEs I M, Mbna,

Patented July 16, 1935 UNITED STATESy cLoTHEsLiNE SUPPORT Alfred Anthony Perry, Middle Village, Long Island, N. Y.

Application December 18, 1933, Serial No. 703,011

3 Claims.

This invention relates to clothes line supports and has for an object to provide an improved construction which may be easily mounted and easily manipulated after mounting.

vAnother object of the present invention is to provide a clothes line support which is adapted to swing in a horizontal plane and which will automatically remain substantially in position in which it is left.

A further object of the invention is to provide a clothes line support wherein there are provided a pair of arms, one of which is provided with a pulley adjustable toward and from the other arm so as to cause the device to be readily balanced under all circumstances.

An additional object oi 4the present invention is to pro-vide a clothes line Vsupport with a swinging support and coacting with this support an automatic locking structure for locking the support in either of two positions.

Astill further object, more specifically, is to provide a clothes line support wherein there is provided pulleys formed with means for preventing fouling of the lines.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional view through a window with a clothes line support shown attached thereto, the support disclosing an ernbodiment of the invention;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2, the same being on an enlarged scale, through Figure 1; i

Figure 3 is a detailed fragmentary sectionalv Figure 1, approximately on the other fastening means. This bracket is providedY with an arm 5 having a number of elongated openings or slots 6, 'I and 8 through certainof which the bolts 9 and I0 areadapted to project, said bolts being threaded into the supporting fitting II which coacts with the arm-carrying bar I2, which carries the arms I3 and I4. The fitting II has one end projecting beyond the webs I5 so that when the screws or bolts 9 and Ill are tightened these webs will assist the bolts in rmly holding the tting against independent movement and really cause the saine to be rigid in respect to the arm,5. The tting 'II is Vprovided with a head I6 having on its upper surface upstanding beads II, I8 and I9, the beads I8 and I9 being (Cl. (S8-3) in alignment, while the beads Il are also in alignmentbut at right angles to the beads I8 and I9. In a similar manner groups of grooves I'I and I3 are formed in the center section i2 of bar I2 so that the beads il, I8 and i9 may interengage therewith and thereby act as locking means for locking the bar i2, arms I3 and i4 and associated parts against swinging movement. Bolt 2) has its head fitted into the head I asV shown in Figure 2, said bolt extending through a suitable aperture in head i6 and through a suitable aperture in the central section I2. A set screw 2li as shown in Fig. 3 acts to hold rod 2l) in place. A threaded member 2| is screwed on to the upper end o1 the bolt 2l) so as to maintain the spring 22 always under tension. Y

A guard 23 surrounds spring 22 and is provided with an inturned flange 24 pressing on top of spring 22. This guard protects the spring and prevents anyone from grasping the same when manipulating the device. Also, if desired,` the wheel or threaded member 2| may be screwed down until the guard presses tightly against sec- 'tion I2', whereupon the parts will be positively locked against any shifting movement until released by unscrewing the member 2l. However, ordinarily member 2I is unscrewed sufliciently to cause the spring 22 to function and hold the parts interlocked so that the parts will be in a certain sense resiliently locked together. The spring 22 is intended to be sufficiently strong to hold the parts locked together so as to take care of all strains caused by the weight of the clothes, or the wind on the clothes or the clothes line.

Whenever it is desired to swing the support H to the dotted line position shown in Figure l, the hand member 25 is grasped and the parts swung inwardly. After theV clothes have been hung on the clothes line and it is desired to swing the support exteriorly oi the window, the hand hold beads I'I, I8 and I9 again into mesh with the similarly shaped groups in the section I2', thus providing a lock for the parts. The respective arms I3 and I4 are secured to the bar l2 by suitable bolts 26 and 21, said bolts extending through suitable apertures 28 and 29 in the respective end portions of bar l2. These apertures are elongated so that there may be some adjustment of the respective arms longitudinally in respect to the bar I2. Bar I2 at both ends is channel shaped so that the respective webs 36 thereof will assist the respective bolts tohold the arms I3 and I4 against any movement independent of bar I2. longer than the arm I4, which may be termed the inside arm as this arm is the one which is Preferably the outside arm I3 is '3l and 3S. provided with a depending outer edge portion.

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Valways swung into or through the window 2.

formed soY as to receive the respective bolts whenever it is desired 'to shift the pulley structure 33. Pulley structure 33 is identical with pulley structure carried by the arm s, and

the description thereof will apply equally to both pulley structures.

As shown in Figures l and 5 the pulley structure Sii Vincludes a pulley wheel 35 mounted on the bolt or pin til which is carried by the guards lt will be noted that the guard 3l is while guard Sil is provided with an extending portion formed as a guiding bead fili over which the line must pass. This extending beadri in coaction with therdepending portion 39 guides the clothes line to and from the p ley wheel so there can be no fouling oi the line. A si le nut il is used Vto hold pin or bolt in On the pulley structure 3ft there provided a hand hold so as to manipulate the device.V This hand ,hold is omitted rom pulley structure 33, but otherwise this latter structure is the same as'pulley structure 35i.

Whenever desired hand hold d5 be grasped and the parts easily swung into the'room as outlined in Fig. i, or the parts may be swung outwardly. vThis is true even whenthe line is loaded with clothes, as the pulley structure 33 is further from the journal pin or bolt 2G' than the pulley structure lil whereby th,c rts will be balanced. As indicated in Figure 5, to secure a desired balance under ordinary circumstances thepulley structure 33 is moved to desired pair or holes Si according to the distance at which the outside pulley structure is spaced fromY the supporting device embodying the invention. If the pole coacting with the clothes line sup-V port disclosed in the present invention is 25 feet away, the pulley structure is moved downto the apertures :3l indicated as eing 25 ieet. The saine is true in regard to a distance of lo r 50 feet or more. Aitor the pulley structure 33 has been once positioned Yit is left in that position always and will function as set forth.

In swinging the device into the dotted line position shown in Figure l, or in a reverse-direction, in addition to pulling the hand hold 25 a knob or handle l2 (Figure) `'pulled downwardly'against the action of the which bears agai ist thehead oipin lili" so as to tend to continually hold the head in the soclret deformed in section i.. l-lowever, when theV knob` i2 is pulled downwardly the head and vspring 43 will be moved downwardly into the socket i6 `formed in head iii After this has occurred the device may be swung inwardly to the dotted line position `shown in I'FigureA When it reaches this position the head l will snap :into the opposite socket il so as toV loclr the parts in position. When it is desired to swing the support to a position exteriorly of the window, the'l'nob l2 is pulled downwardly and the parte are swung outwardly. YAss soon as the head as shown in Figure 5, cornes opposite the socket d5 it will snap into this socket and loci: .the parts against further swinging movement. The beads il to I9, inclusive, will also act to lock the parts against movement, the saine being urged -to function :properly by the spring 22 as shown in` Figure 2.

It will thus be seen that the device may be easilyswung from one position to another and that it is ordinarily balanced so as to remain in any desired position. However, to prevent the wind or any other influence from swinging the support undesirably, various locking means as set` forth automatically function to hold the arms either in the outer or inner position.

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i. A clothes line support comprising a supporting structure, means comprising a pair of arms extending in opposite directions and 1ying in the same straight line, pivotally mounted on a vertical axis on said supporting structure and a pulley structure carried by each of said arms on the corresponding sidesof the arms, each of said pulley structures extending in a horizontal plane and eachrcomprising a pulley wheel adapted to function while in a horizontal plane', a lower guard positioned under said pulley wheel Vand projecting beyond the periphery thereof witha part of said projection portion secured flatwise against the lower surface of one oisaid arms, said lower guard being positioned sufficiently near said pulley wheel to prevent said clothes linel moving in the space between said guard and the pulley wheel, a second guard posi.- tioned over the upper side of said pulley wheel and provided with portions projecting beyond `said pulley wheel, one of said portions extending over said arrn and secured thereto, said upper guard having part of the periphery thereof bent downwardly suficiently to, be substantially inl the same plane as the upper-edge of said pulley wheel and the lower guard' having part of the periphery thereof projecting beyond theupper guard and beyond the wheel, said projectingV portion being formed with a rounded bead extend- .ing toward the upper guard sufficiently to vbe substantially in line with the lower'gedge of said pulley wheel, and the said bead coacting with the bent-down portion of the upper guard to present a guide for'the clothes line on the. pulley, and means for rotatably mounting said pulley Wheel between said guards, said means rigidly connect# ing said guards together and forming means extending through both `or said guards and said pulley for clamping saidguards to the pulley.

, 2L A clothes line support, including anrintermediate pivoted horizontally fswingable supporting structure, a pulley adacent each `end of said supporting struc-ture so arranged that both runs of the line are in a horizontal plane, and guide means on each pulley to prevent Vfouling of the runs of the line, the respective guide means forming supports for the respective pulleys.

A pulley structure, comprising a pulley Wheel,

a pair of guards for th-e pulley wheel positioned to project beyond the periphery of said Wheel with a part or the projecting portion acting as a support adapted to 4be connected to a xed object when the pulley structureV is in use, Ysaid 

